ALLEN GINSBERG - BEST UNDRESSED BEAT

As we’ve seen, Esquire reckons Kerouac’s workwear was “a nod to nonconformity”. Pah, poppycock. Here his old buddy goes for less a nod and more a full blown head-butt. Unruly beard, half a smile, undercrackers draped over noggin, Please Do Not Disturb sign swinging precariously from knob. Mr. Ginsberg, MonkeyPicks salutes you. Shalom.

JACK KEROUAC - BEST DRESSED BEAT?

Jack Kerouac was recently voted 23rd best dressed man of all time by Esquire magazine. According to them “because during the decade that brought the world The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit, Kerouac embraced workwear as both a functional uniform and a nod to nonconformity.” I’m guessing Jack would be flattered and bemused in equal measures.

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